Senate appropriators on Thursday unanimously backed an annual spending bill designed to block the sale of intoxicating hemp products while allowing industrial uses of hemp to continue.
Congress is seeking to clarify what uses of hemp are allowed after legalizing the plant’s growth and sale in 2018, which spawned a multibillion-dollar industry. Senators’ measure parallels language approved by their House counterparts in June.
“My 2018 hemp bill sought to create an agricultural hemp industry, not open the door to the sale of unregulated, intoxicating, lab-made hemp-derived substances with no safety framework,” Sen.